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• Susan soon discovered her blind date to be mean, vulgar, obstreperous, presuming, and insulting; in a word, a cad.From the entry in a word
• All these Johnny-come-latelies typically come out as irreverent, vulgar or immature and childlike.2018, E. Khayyat, Istanbul 1940 and Global Modernity, Lexington Books, →ISBN, page 213. From the entry johnny-come-lately
• Bones and stones, if you can forgive this vulgar formulation, are both holdable and beholdable.2017, Paul Kockelman, The Art of Interpretation in the Age of Computation, page 113. From the entry holdable
• The loutish, vulgar train rushed up onto the bridge, which seemed to stand there loftish and unyielding.2012, Yan Mo, Big Breasts and Wide Hips. From the entry loftish
• Good heavens, I can't write down to the level of the vulgar public!2011, Ada Leverson, Love's Shadow: The Bloomsbury Group. From the entry write down
• As I will present it, the first moment identifies the problematics of reading what was deemed vulgar.1994, Graven Images: A Journal of Culture, Law, and the Sacred, page 176. From the entry antiquitization
• These vulgar, pleasure-seeking people, so frank and clamorous, were too uninhibited for his shielded and involuted life.1986, John le Carré, A Perfect Spy. From the entry involute
• The show of vulgar power, rude behaviour, a generally contemptive attitude are but a few of them.1984, D. N. Gautam, What is wrong with Indian police?, page 225. From the entry contemptive
• “That’s just the stupid, vulgar, idiotic, irresponsible name the New Zealand government has given it.1969 May 10, Cleveland Amory, “Review: The Galloping Gourmet”, in Merrill Panitt, editor, TV Guide, volume 17, number 19 (841 overall)…. From the entry kiwi fruit
• Ragged children played in the road, and an old barrel-organ was grinding out a vulgar tune.1915, W[illiam] Somerset Maugham, chapter LXXXIII, in Of Human Bondage, New York, N.Y.: George H[enry] Doran Company, →OCLC. From the entry barrel organ
• "In the latter case, he may well approximate to what the vulgar have called the 'missing link'."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry missing link
• Disgustingly vulgar trash to her; trash that her half-brother and others in hilarious laughter split a gut over.2014, J L Daniels, Mirror Opposites, page 24. From the entry split a gut
• It is almost 50 years since Western dancers first tried to cure the Russians of this crashingly vulgar habit.2009 January 15, Alastair Macaulay, “Tilting at Windmills, but Not at Traditions, in Performance From Maryinsky”, in New York Times. From the entry crashingly
• He also resisted the vulgar racist stereotypes of the day and wrote about the slave trade with an antiracializing rhetoric.2007, Marcus Rediker, The Slave Ship: A Human History, Viking, →ISBN. From the entry antiracialize
• It is more vulgar—more detailist—than any prior realism.2006 January, Evan Cory Horowitz, “Ulysses: Mired in the Universal”, in Modernism/modernity, volume 13, number 1. From the entry detailist
• The vulgar anti-communist typecasting of Soviet women as so "mannish" that they might really be males in drag.2004 August 18, Leslie Feinberg, “Rights for lesbians, transgenders, transsexuals”, in Workers World. From the entry typecast
• "I confess," and the Englishman turned with a near complicit grin to Hamo, "I have certain vulgar tastes myself."1973, Angus Wilson, As If by Magic, Secker and Warburg, page 177. From the entry complicit
• This old maid, she had a parrot that cursed a blue streak and knew more vulgar expressions than Mr.1951, Tennessee Williams, Oscar Saul, A Streetcar Named Desire, spoken by Blanche (Vivien Leigh). From the entry blue streak
• In vulgar terms, you've got me going.1950, Norman Lindsay, Dust or Polish?, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 175. From the entry get going
• I don't know where you get these vulgar expressions from."1926, Agatha Christie, The Murder of Roger Ackroyd. From the entry eat out of someone's hand
• Her vulgar cares were at an end.1905, Edith Wharton, The House of Mirth, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC. From the entry empyrean
• I am no vulgar seller of aguardiente, like Domingo.1903, Joseph Conrad, F. M. Hueffer, Romance. From the entry capataz
• Although called Foeniculum vulgare in Latin, there is nothing foelike or vulgar about these plants that are part of the carrot family.2013, Raghavan Iyer, Indian Cooking Unfolded. From the entry foelike
• As he perhaps justly ridicules Soviet “vulgar sociologizing” approaches to Gogol, Karlinsky's own approach may thus better be labeled as vulgar queerizing.2011, Alexei Lalo, Libertinage in Russian Culture and Literature, page 67. From the entry queerize
• Southland Tales simulates the oversaturation of the 21st-century mediascape and delights in, even as it mocks, the vulgar absurdities of celebrity culture.2007 October 28, Dennis Lim, “Booed at Cannes, but Now the Real Test”, in New York Times. From the entry mediascape
• A wholesome British name like Diana, Anne, Margaret or Elizabeth impresses a judge much more than all your vulgar Marilyns, Donnas, Madonnas and Dawns.1993, James Kirkup, Queens Have Died Young and Fair, P. Owen, →ISBN, page 94. From the entry Diana
• In her later years she had become enthusiastic about the possibilities of the microwave, rather than dismissing it as vulgar, as many foodwriters had done.1993, Hazel Castell, Kathleen Griffin, “Jane Grigson: A Companionable Presence in the Kitchen”, in Out of the Frying Pan: Seven Women Who…. From the entry foodwriter
• Hence among the vulgar, when you speak to them with too loud a voice, they tell you "that they were not born in a mill."1981, Benjamin Rush, Eric T. Carlson, Jeffrey L. Wollock, Benjamin Rush's Lectures on the Mind, page 345. From the entry born in a mill
• Vulgar Latin : a collagic concept designed to cover up the failure of Romance philologists to comprehend the development of the Romance languages.1979, James Foley, Theoretical Morphology of the French Verb, →ISBN, page 18. From the entry collagic
• It was Big Business with its fear of femininity, it was the eunuchoid clergy capitulating to vulgar masculinity that made religion and art sissy things.1976 September, Saul Bellow, Humboldt’s Gift, New York, N.Y.: Avon Books, →ISBN, page 26. From the entry eunuchoid
• For him even the most painful social confrontations and contrasts, which would have stabbed the conscience of even the vulgarest nouveau riche, were stingless.1965, John Fowles, The Magus, Boston: Little, Brown, Part 2, Chapter 29, p. 161. From the entry algedonic
• I say pseudometaphysics of the most vulgar type, because it combines all the prejudices of deterministic, mechanistic scientism with all the prejudices of irrationalism.1964, Jacques Maritain, “Freudianism and Psychoanalysis [Freudisme et psychanalyse]”, in William Birmingham, Joseph E. Cunneen, editors…. From the entry scientism
• One had forgotten how vulgar ours have become, & it was quite a shock to return here to the headliny, gossipy, untruthful kind of writing.1958 February 18, Queen Elizabeth The Queen Mother, “18 February 1958 to Queen Elizabeth II”, in William Shawcross, editor, Counting One’s…. From the entry headliny
• There is no crudity here, no carnal implication, no vulgar song to Eros, rather a simple, and in a sense pure peanism to Love itself.1932, Harold Vinal, editor, Voices, numbers 67-78 [exact issue unclear], page 37. From the entry peanism
• He says: ‘It's vulgar, that alley-oop.1927, Wallace Smith, Are You Decent?, page 94. From the entry alley oop

Meaning of vulgar

1. adjective Debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.
2. adjective Having to do with ordinary, common people.
3. adjective Common, usual; of the typical kind.

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Questions about vulgar in a sentence

How do you use vulgar in a sentence?

Vulgar is used as an adjective and noun. For example: “Susan soon discovered her blind date to be mean, vulgar, obstreperous, presuming, and insulting; in a word, a cad.”

What is a short sentence with vulgar?

“vulgar and highly distressing scenes”

What does vulgar mean?

Vulgar means debased; uncouth; distasteful; obscene.